That sounds like very good advice. Thanks for the explanation.
Regards,
Henry
On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 08:20:39 pm +0100, Jonathan Yip wrote:
> That's because, as I read in lines 397ff. in
> trunk/tex/gregoriotex-spaces.tex, that /grespacelinestext is
> automatically multiplied by /grefactor.
>
> For fine-tuning I'd rather copy in the default value from gsp-defaults
> and change it in its native unit rather than assuming a new measurement
> because one never knows for certain what secondary or tertiary steps
> gregoriotex takes to scale those values in accordance to /grefactor or
> whatever else.
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Mon 21 May 2012 20:09:17 BST, Henry So Jr. wrote:
> > Be that as it may, setting a new value for \grespacelinestext from my
> > LaTeX file seems to multiply this size rather than set it.
> >
> > Calling
> >
> > \setlength{\grespacelinestext}{5pt}
> >
> > or
> >
> > \grespacelinestext = 5pt
> >
> > or even
> >
> > \advance\grespacelinestext by 5pt
> >
> > ... makes the size considerably greater than a few points.
> >
> > I'm no TeX/LaTeX expert, so maybe this is some TeX/LaTeX thing that I'm
> > not familiar with.
> >
> > Henry
> >
> > On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 07:44:35 pm +0100, Jonathan Yip wrote:
> >> Looking into gsp-defaults.tex, the declaration on lines 124-5 show that
> >> the default value is actually defined by sp:
> >>
> >> 124 %the space between the lines and the bottom of the text
> >> 125 \grespacelinestext = 66500 sp plus 0 sp minus 0 sp
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Jonathan
> >>
> >> On Mon 21 May 2012 19:40:54 BST, Henry So Jr. wrote:
> >>> The length setting you want to change is \grespacelinestext.
> >>>
> >>> The default seems to be "1pt". The following TeX command makes it
> >>> "1.5pt".
> >>>
> >>> \setlength{\grespacelinestext}{1.5pt}
> >>>
> >>> Ignoring what appears obvious, I don't know what units this value uses,
> >>> because it's empirically not in points. To my eyeballs, it seems more
> >>> like 1pt here equates to about 1\baselineskip, so the best I can suggest
> >>> is to experiment with the value until you get a size that is pleasant
> >>> for your engraving.
> >>>
> >>> Henry
> >>>
> >>> On Monday, 21 May 2012 at 12:29:16 pm -0500, Jeffrey Mark Ostrowski wrote:
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there any way to control the space between the words and the staff?
> >>>>
> >>>> When the notes dip down really low and hover around the bottom, they
> >>>> practically collide with the text.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Jeff Ostrowski • [email protected]
> >>>> President, Corpus Christi Watershed
> >>>> http://www.ccwatershed.org/
> >>>
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